Ubuntu Live CD + eth1 ....

[eagle1]

Hello guys.

It has been a looooooong time since I've used any Linux distro.
On Saturday I received my Ubuntu discs.
The thing is that I'm using the live CD (I have not installed yet) and
I was wondering how to make my Wireless work.

I'm using it on a Dell Latitude D610 laptop and it does not work.
Whenever I try to activate my eth1 (lo = loopback, eth0 = ethernet
so I guess eth1 is my wireless card) via ifconfig eth1 up, it gives me an
error about permissions. If I try through the gui, it says that eth1 I can
"activate" it but it actually doesn't.

Any idea on how to make this work?

Thanks.

[Dbest]

Greetings eagle1, it's also been a long time since I posted somethign in TIMO. So to your question, do you have ndiswrapper installed? I remebered last time I used Ubuntu 5.xx I needed to install ndiswrapper for my usb wireless adapter to work, and the interface was not named eth* (I believe this is only for ethernet adapters) it was named wlan0, can you do an sudo ndiswrapper -l to see if you driver is installed correctly? Also, check your /etc/network for your wireless card configuration.

Let me know how it goes and we can go from there.

[jkrohn]

Which wireless adapter did you get it configured with?

[eagle1]

hello guys!

First of all, I don't even know if the Live CD configured automatically the laptop
wireless chip. lol :-p yep I suck.

It's a:
Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (Service: BCM43xx)

Can I do a sudo with just the Live CD?


Hmmmm... I think I saw something regarding that BCM43 stuff... maybe they were
error messages...

[jkrohn]

That bad boy is best served using ndiswrapper and the windows driver for it (bcmwl5a.inf)

Yes you can do sudo with the live cd, it is just a command. Do ndiswrapper -l to see if it installed your card. If not you may need to load it using your windows driver from the CD or the windows partition.

If you want to look for error messages type dmesg in console. To filter a bit use grep
ie
dmesg | grep -i "stuff"

Jkrohn

[eagle1]

Does Ubuntu loads the NTFS partitions?
Or will I have to manually mount them?
I'm lost ... I am running a Live CD... wouldn't that make
doing that impossible?!?

Damn I'm lost! :-p

[Dbest]

I don't recall if Ubuntu live CD mount FAT32 or NTFS automatically, but it does include them on your fstab, check to see if you have an entry for your windows partitions on your fstab, if it's not there then you're gonna have to mount the partition yourself. You'll have to go throught the whole process of setting a mount point, editing /etc/fstab, etc, here's a great PET done by our own Pbharris (had to hunt it down since the website has changed). As for the wireless nic like jkrohn said, you're better of installing ndiswrapper check here for Ubuntu installation . Let us know how it goes. BTW good to see you back on the Linux/Unix forum

[Dbest]

You could also just create a mount point and mount the partition via cmd line. Example mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -o umask=0002,nls=utf. Hope this helps.